One person died on Wednesday morning after a bus operating under Coast Bus plunged into a river in Masosa, Kisii.

During the fatal accident, several passengers sustained serious injuries.

According to reports, the bus was en route to Tanzania from Mombasa.

The deceased was a pedestrian who met the untimely death when the bus slid off the tarmac and hit him.

The injured are being attended to in various hospitals where they have been rushed to for emergency treatments

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